NEWS RELEASE:NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY ADDS ACTIVISM TO INTERNATIONAL
OBSERVANCE OF "SPACE DAY"
Visitors to NSS Booth on Mall Can Send Postcards to
President

CONTACT:
Karen Rugg, National Space Society, 202-543-1900

Washington, DC -- May 21, 1998 -- The National Space Society
announces the following activities as its contribution to today's
observance of "Space Day." The NSS is one of 38 Partners in the
full-day event.

From 9:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. ET, the NSS is among the
participants in Space Day exhibits on the Washington DC Mall across
from the Air & Space Museum. Preprinted postcards containing
messages to President Bill Clinton about the International Space
Station, our nation's future in space, and federal funding for
NASA, will be available for the public. Postage for the cards is
provided by NSS members across the country. The cards will be
picked up and mailed throughout the day.

"As hundreds of young people 'embrace space' today, we want them
to know that telling their elected leaders how they feel about
space is especially important," said NSS Director of
Communications, Karen Rugg. "Our mission is to speak for the public
about space but, even more importantly, give them the tools so that
they can speak for themselves. This is how we are choosing to
celebrate space today."

The NSS will also be collecting names to be printed onto a
microchip to be placed on board the STARDUST spacecraft Sample
Return Capsule. The names will join those of the members of the
Society and the cast and crew of the film "DEEP IMPACT." The names
are part of a campaign begun on May 8 by the NSS, Paramount
Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures to collect one million names.

The NSS is also providing full technical support for the
production of Space Day's main event -- Cyber Space Day --- which
also takes place on the Mall from 10:00 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET and can be
accessed at http://www.spaceday.com.

Space Day is also the eve of the Society's 17th Annual
International Space Development Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Over 400 activists and space visionaries are set to attend the
four-day conference exploring space tourism, entrepreneurship,
activism, education and more.

The National Space Society, founded in 1974, is an independent,
nonprofit space advocacy organization headquartered in Washington,
DC. Its 23,000 members and 90 chapters around the world actively
promote a spacefaring civilization. Information on NSS and space
exploration is available at http://www.nss.org/.